Great story, nice to have an insight into Severus, and it's very well written.

masterful! I have been and am still looking for SS stories because he is the most complex character and sadly incomplete in canon. I had to wipe tears off my cheeks . . .
thank you for a truly insightful view into Snape's heart during the last hours of his life that really should have gone on!

And for his trouble, was left to rot in the Shack by those he saved. Well, here's hoping there is Someone who knows better.

Wonderful.
Snape’s character is so big, charismatic and tragic that deserved a better final treatment than that he received in the book.
I share with you and I think with many others the urgency of knowing what Snape thought in his last moments. The Prince’s tale is too little to give him justice and leaves us embittered and disappointed.
Particularly because, having read the entire book with Harry’s eyes, we have the sensation that Snape’s sacrifice will never be understood in all his greatness and recognized by everyone.
Luckily there are stories like yours that fill these holes and take avenge for him. As a matter of fact, like Duj, I enjoyed those words about Minerva because, one above all, is the evidence of how many good moments have been missed.
The sentence in the end “someone would try harder, fighting for him” is very touching. Here, not in DH, we feel sure he will be honoured.
Personally, thank to this kind of stories and your others, I prefer to stick with the tenuos hope.

It's very touching and sad, especially the insight into his feelings of hopelessness which go back virtually to his birth, and as always I like the way you weave the different elements into a pattern so that, for example, the significance of his use of voice recurs in several of the segments.

Yes, he did care. your insight into "It is I," is heartbreaking.

Good work, except that the paragraph beginning "Neither did he give up now" switches us briefly from his PoV to that of an omniscient narrator, which I found a bit jarring.